Demand Oregon Treasury Comply with International Law and Divest from Genocide
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- Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
- Published: 23 August 2024 23 August 2024
Palestine will soon be free, but many people of Gaza are running out of time. We must act now to stop apartheid and genocide, and at a minimum divest from structures supporting it. Please demand the Oregon Treasury and the Oregon Investment Council comply with international law, UN recommendations, Oregon legislative precedent, and its own guiding principles to divest from Israel Bonds, Caterpillar Inc., and Bank of America.
Please sign to petition the Oregon Treasury and the Oregon Investment Council (OIC) to:
1) Discontinue investments in Israel Bonds for as long as Israel remains an apartheid state;
2) Divest from Caterpillar Inc. and Bank of America while these companies are complicit in genocide; and
3) Demand the Oregon Treasury develop a human rights investment policy to prevent such investments in the future.
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Mass evacuations in Gaza choke survival and severely constrain aid operations
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- Written by Muhannad Hadi, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Published: 22 August 2024 22 August 2024
Civilians are exhausted and terrified, running from one destroyed place to another, with no end in sight.
This cannot continue.
International humanitarian law demands that the parties protect civilians and meet their essential needs. The way forward is as clear as it is urgent: protect civilians, release the hostages, facilitate humanitarian access, agree on a ceasefire.
Read more at: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/mass-evacuations-gaza-choke-survival-and-severely-constrain-aid-operations
Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn
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- Written by Nina Lakhani and Ajit Niranjan | The Guardian Nina Lakhani and Ajit Niranjan | The Guardian
- Published: 20 August 2024 20 August 2024
Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza
“After the 26 January ICJ ruling, states cannot claim they did not know what they were risking to partake in,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, adding that under international law, states have obligations to prevent genocide and respect and ensure respect for the Geneva conventions.
“The case for the US’s complicity in genocide is very strong,” aid Dr Shahd Hammouri, lecturer in international law at the University of Kent and the author of Shipments of Death. “It’s providing material support, without which the genocide and other illegalities are not possible. The question of complicity for the other countries will rely on assessment of how substantial their material support has been.”
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/20/israel-war-gaza-fuel-war-crimes-warning
Letter to Biden, Harris with American physicians’ and nurses’ observations from the Gaza Strip
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- Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
- Published: 26 July 2024 26 July 2024
Link to Letter sent by 45 American Doctors and Nurses to President Biden and Vice President Harris
July 25, 2024
Re: American physicians’ and nurses’ observations from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023
I’ve never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources. Our bombs are cutting down women and children by the thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to cruelty.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, trauma and critical care surgeon
I saw so many stillbirths and maternal deaths that could have been easily prevented if the hospitals had been functioning normally.
Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, obstetrician and gynecologist
Every day I saw babies die. They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved.
Asma Taha, pediatric nurse practitioner
Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, orthopedic and hand surgeon
Read the letter at: https://tinyurl.com/gazadoctorsletter
Read the appendix at: https://tinyurl.com/gazadoctorsletterappendix
US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel
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- Written by Chris McGreal | The Guardian Chris McGreal | The Guardian
- Published: 26 July 2024 26 July 2024
Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people
Dozens of US doctors and nurses who worked in Gaza have written to Joe Biden claiming that the true death toll from Israel’s months-long assault is much higher than previously reported, demanding the US withdraw diplomatic and military support for Israel until there is a ceasefire.
The eight-page letter, delivered on Thursday and addressed to Biden, the first lady, Jill Biden, and the vice-president, Kamala Harris, said the medics saw evidence of widespread violations of laws governing the use of US weapons supplied to Israel, and of international humanitarian law.
Forty-five surgeons, emergency room physicians and nurses who volunteered in several Gaza hospitals over recent months laid out what they described as the “massive human toll from Israel’s attack on Gaza, especially the toll it has taken on women and children”.
“We cannot forget the scenes of unbearable cruelty directed at women and children that we witnessed ourselves,” they wrote.
“Every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head.”
Several of the signatories previously told the Guardian they believed Israeli snipers were targeting children and reported the devastating impact on civilians of weapons designed to spray high levels of shrapnel.
The medics, who volunteered with the World Health Organization and other relief groups, told the president the real death toll is much higher than the Palestinian ministry of health’s casualty figure of more than 39,000 people killed, the majority being women and children.
“It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 92,000, an astonishing 4.2% of Gaza’s population,” they wrote.
The medics added almost no one in Gaza has escaped the consequences of the Israeli attack.
“With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured or both. This includes every national aid worker, every international volunteer and probably every Israeli hostage: every man, woman and child,” they said.
The letter warned that “epidemics are raging in Gaza” and described Israel’s repeated displacement of a malnourished and sick civilian population to areas without running water and toilets as “absolutely shocking”.
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/25/israel-gaza-war-biden-letter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other